Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association

Five of Las Vegas great brass players, led by first trumpet Gary Cordell, join TSDCA for an adventurous look at everything those great instruments can do, examining period music, jazz composition/arrangements and voicing, mutes of all kinds, and especially contemporary music and extended techniques – including a freewheeling talk about the lives of musicians in Las Vegas and how so many great musicians wear all the interesting hats they do to keep things going for a lifetime.

MICHAEL ROTH has composed chamber music, film scores, new opera & music/theatre, and music and sound for theatre productions throughout North America. His self-produced THE WEB OPERA –  thewebopera.com – composed to raise awareness of cyber-abuse, has been an official selection at 35 film festivals and an Opera America finalist, with a new fourth episode to be premiered soon. Other projects: in LA, HENRY IV with Tom Hanks and RICHARD III with Al Pacino; with Christopher Plummer, THE TEMPEST and Plummer’s solo-show at the Stratford Festival; IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE, his treatment of Beckett’s text for string quartet and laptop, performed in LA and Prague, most recently in Ashland; two US premieres with Tom Stoppard; collaborations with Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; and many projects with Randy Newman including music direction for Disney’s PRINCESS & THE FROG, orchestrations and music direction for Randy’s FAUST in concert most recently in LA and editing five anthology songbooks. SHEETCAKE, his sonata for 4 pianos, toy piano and electric bass was recently premiered in LA. Michael studied with William Bolcom, has taught at UCSD, was a founding TSDCA board member and hosted 30 TSDCA Composer Salons during the pandemic.